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Column: Welcome back, Rocky Top, from a 15-year exile
2 years ago - Nov 04, 2022, 8:45 PM
In some ways, it seems like only yesterday Tennessee was a Southeastern Conference powerhouse - the program of Johnny Majors and Phillip Fulmer, of Peyton Manning and Reggie White, of major bowls and national titles. ''When you're that bad for that long, you wonder if it will ever come back,'' said former Tennessee quarterback Erik Ainge, who now hosts a morning sports-talk radio show in Knoxville. Josh Heupel, Oklahoma's national championship-winning quarterback from a generation ago, established himself as one of the nation's top offensive minds during his head coaching debut at Central Florida.